Christian's Blog

  The coastal hazards in the UK are very severe and shallow on many different coasts around the Isles. The east coast of the UK is the hardest hit, with the erosion rate the fastest in Yorkshire and the Humber, where 56 percent of the coastline is at risk. The coastal erosion in those eastern coastlines is hit all day long by large ocean waves and high wind speeds gusting. Another part of the UK near England is also experiencing high-risk erosion because " around a third of the coast in the south of England is being actively eroded — threatening such areas as Norfolk, Suffolk, and East/West Sussex."   Britain's coastlines have been dramatically receding as an effect of Climate Change. There is evidence of this in a 2020 article from the UK's Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership "found that 3700km of UK coastline is experiencing greater than 10cm of erosion per year." The coastlines are eroding away consistently more than in other ar...

The UK and Primarily England do not receive much extreme weather since the land is located so far north of where heat waves, sandstorms, and tornadoes usually occur. The most common extreme weather condition consists of heavy rainfall, freezing cold temperatures with strong winds, and occasionally heavy snow. Shockingly after some research, I have found the UK does experience droughts and extreme heat. In fact, the UK and areas surrounding England have some hotter temperatures in the last decade. The July 2019 heatwave recorded a record high 38.7 degrees Celsius (approx. 101.6 degrees Fahrenheit). It continued to heat up as it eventually reached 39.4 degrees Celsius (approx. 103 degrees Fahrenheit) only a couple of days later. The weather was oddly hotter than usual, so the  Cambridge University Botanic Gardens studied why the temperature rose. They discovered that "a n extreme pattern in the jet stream caused the heatwave" The jet stream supposedly separates hot air in the s...